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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-490458

Surrender of Japan, 1945


An Allied prisoner of war, too emaciated to walk, is carried aboard a small craft for transportation to a U.S. Navy hospital ship in Tokyo Bay, 30 August 1945. He had been rescued from the Aomori POW camp, near Yokosuka, by a team led by Commodore Rodger Simpson and Commander Harold Stassen.
Emergency medical and food supplies are in the background, including one container labeled "U.S. Navy Battle Ration".

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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26 February 1999